Can Trump Sue His Way Out of the Epstein Mess?
28 Jul 2025
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Kate and Leah break down the week’s legal happenings, including Trump’s flailing efforts to mana...
SCOTUS Enables Government Destruction
21 Jul 2025
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Melissa and Kate run through the latest legal news, including the Court greenlighting the dismantlin...
Hunger Games for Legal Hackery
14 Jul 2025
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Katie Phang, independent journalist and trial lawyer, joins Leah to run through the week’s legal n...
A Term for the Rich, the Reactionaries, and the Ruthless
Mon, 7 Jul
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With July upon us and bad decision season (mercifully) over, Leah, Kate and Melissa take a step back...
SCOTUS Strengthens Conservative War on Education
Mon, 30 Jun
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Leah, Melissa and Kate roll up their sleeves and unpack last Friday’s huge day at the Court, start...
SCOTUS Clears the Way for Trump’s Lawlessness
Fri, 27 Jun
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In an emergency episode, Leah, Kate, and Melissa break down today’s radical decision in Trump v. C...
SCOTUS Deals Massive Blow to Health Care Access
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:01:55 +0000
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In this emergency episode, Melissa, Leah and Kate are joined by Alexis McGill Johnson, president and...
Ketanji Brown Jackson Sounds the Alarm
Mon, 23 Jun
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First, Leah is joined by international law expert Bec Ingber to lay out legal issues around the use ...
SCOTUS Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
Wed, 18 Jun
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In this emergency episode, Chase Strangio of the ACLU joins the pod to talk about today’s decision...
Can Trump Mobilize the Military Without California's Consent?
Mon, 16 Jun
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah can smell the fascism in the air as President Trump forces troops on Califor...
9-0, but Make It Complicated
Mon, 9 Jun
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Leah, Kate and Melissa unpack this week’s raft of SCOTUS decisions, including cases on “reverse ...
It's Officially Bad Decision Season
Mon, 2 Jun
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Live from Capital Turnaround in Washington, D.C., Leah, Kate, and Melissa wade right into the swamp,...
A Blockbuster Non-Opinion and a Fascism Grab Bag
Mon, 26 May
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate kick the show off with a look at the Court’s 4-4 deadlock on Oklahoma’s ...
Will the Courts Let Trump End Birthright Citizenship?
Mon, 19 May
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May is supposed to be the calm before June’s opinion storm in SCOTUS-land, but not in Trump’s Am...
The Supreme Court’s ‘Lawless’ Era
Mon, 12 May
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Drop everything and read! This week, the hosts celebrate the release of Leah’s book, Lawless: How ...
Will SCOTUS Sign Off on Religious Charter Schools?
Mon, 5 May
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Is this the term when the Court says “see ya” to the Establishment Clause? Leah, Melissa and Kat...
Can Religious Parents Veto Books in Public Schools?
Mon, 28 Apr
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Kate and Leah recap oral arguments in two big cases the Supreme Court heard this week. The first is ...
Are Trump Administration Officials in Criminal Contempt?
Mon, 21 Apr
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Leah, Melissa and Kate join forces to dig through the Trump administration’s latest affronts to th...
SCOTUS Lets Trump Play Word Games
Mon, 14 Apr
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This week, the Court weighed in on two cases arising out of the Trump administration’s use of the ...
What’s the Future of Planned Parenthood?
Mon, 7 Apr
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Leah and Kate recap recent opinions and arguments from the Supreme Court, including cases about tax ...
Can Elon Musk Buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court Race? (With Jon Lovett)
Mon, 31 Mar
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Jon Lovett joins Leah and Melissa to talk about what’s at stake in this week’s Wisconsin Supreme...
Deportations and the Death of Due Process
Mon, 24 Mar
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After a deep dive on the Trump administration’s horrifying misuse of the Alien Enemies Act to depo...
How to Lose a Democracy in 10 Laws (with Elie Mystal)
Mon, 17 Mar
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Leah, Kate, and Melissa are joined this week by Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, w...
The Conservative Push to Sue the Media Into Oblivion
Mon, 10 Mar
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After covering the latest goings-on in Trumpland, Melissa and Kate turn to this week’s SCOTUS argu...
Pod Save the Separation of Powers
Mon, 3 Mar
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate once again wade through the latest malevolence from the Trump White House in...
The Atextual & Illegal Attack on Birthright Citizenship
Mon, 24 Feb
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate are joined by Professor Kate Masur of Northwestern to talk about just how il...
Yes, We’re in a Constitutional Crisis
Mon, 17 Feb
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Live from Fordham Law, Leah, Melissa, and Kate stay on the Trump 2.0 chaos beat. They cover the cont...
DOGE Runs Amok & Originalism’s Ahistoricism
Mon, 10 Feb
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This week, the ladies react to the ransacking of the federal government by Elon Musk and his fleet o...
The Lawlessness, Chaos, & Cruelty of Trump 2.0
Mon, 3 Feb
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah continue to assess the fallout from the second Trump administration, includi...
Trump’s Onslaught of Executive Orders
Mon, 27 Jan
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Post-inauguration, the Trump administration is wasting no time issuing a flurry of heinous executive...
SCOTUS's Porn Problem
Mon, 20 Jan
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Leah, Melissa and Kate cover some breaking news, including Biden’s last-minute declaration that th...
SCOTUS Unanimously Upholds TikTok Ban
Fri, 17 Jan
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In the first emergency episode of 2025, Kate, Leah and Melissa break down the Court’s unanimous de...
Is TikTok’s Time Up?
Mon, 13 Jan
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Leah, Melissa & Kate dive headfirst into an already busy 2025 by detailing the Republican attempt to...
The Promise and Perils of Presidential Power
Mon, 6 Jan
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On the fourth anniversary of January 6th, Leah, Melissa & Kate dive deep on presidential power: how ...
Our Favorite Things, 2024
Mon, 23 Dec
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In the spirit of the holidays, Leah, Kate & Melissa force themselves to say something nice about eac...
Jingle Bells, the Fifth Circuit Is Hell
Mon, 16 Dec
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate cover some breaking news before recapping last week’s SCOTUS arguments. Th...
Leave Trans Kids Alone You Absolute Freaks (with Chase Strangio)
Mon, 9 Dec
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah break down United States v. Skrmetti, the Court’s big case on gender-affir...
Gender-Affirming Care in the Court’s Crosshairs
Mon, 2 Dec
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After touching on some shenanigans from the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention and C...
How Will Trump 2.0 Embolden SCOTUS to Gut the Law?
Mon, 25 Nov
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Kate and Melissa comb through the latest from the incoming Trump administration, including the subbi...
Trump’s Parade of Clowns, Idiots, and Creeps
Mon, 18 Nov
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate wade through more election fallout, including President-elect Trump’s prop...
Making Sense of the Election and What It Means for the Court
Mon, 11 Nov
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After processing the election and thinking through what it means for the future of the Supreme Court...
Election Anxiety: How the Outcome Could Affect SCOTUS’s Docket
Mon, 4 Nov
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After diving deep on a wild story about Justice Alito palling around with a German princess, Melissa...
Fifth Circuit Election Madness, a Post-Mortem on Roe, & the War on Drugs
Mon, 28 Oct
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After an emergency intro looking at the Fifth Circuit’s bonkers mail-in ballot decision, the ladie...
SCOTUS’s Endless Beef with the EPA
Mon, 21 Oct
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah recap October at the Supreme Court, diving into the sewage-infested waters o...
"Ghost Guns" are Guns (Duh)
Mon, 14 Oct
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After covering some breaking news, Kate, Melissa and Leah recap last week's oral arguments at the Su...
An Unsealed Brief, Ghost Guns, & Antitrust Law as Social Justice
Mon, 7 Oct
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate kick off with a look at Jack Smith’s unsealed brief on Trump’s election ...
Steel Yourself for a New SCOTUS Term
Mon, 30 Sep
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Melissa, Leah and Kate break down some excellent recent SCOTUS reporting and look ahead to what fres...
No Choice but to Stan: A Deep Dive on Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar
Mon, 23 Sep
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Pamela Karlan, experienced advocate and co-director of Stanford’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic,...
The Battle for Native Rights & Comstock: The Zombie Law From Hell
Mon, 16 Sep
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Kate and Leah speak with Rebecca Nagle, author of By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight f...
Reform, Repression, & Reproductive Rights (Live from Texas!)
Mon, 9 Sep
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This week Kate and Melissa are live from the Texas Tribune Festival with a couple of dream guests. F...
Shining a Light on State Supreme Court Races
Mon, 2 Sep
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In this week’s three-part episode, we take a look at state supreme courts and why this year’s el...
Project 2025 (cont.): The Fascist Plan to Plunder the Government
Mon, 26 Aug
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To wrap up our series on Project 2025, Kate, Leah and Melissa are joined by NYU's Ruth Ben-Ghiat, au...
Project 2025 (cont.): How to Create a Geopolitical Hellscape & Back to School With Meredith Marks
Mon, 19 Aug
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Ben Rhodes of Crooked's Pod Save the World joins Leah and Kate to break down Project 2025's truly fr...
State of the Uterus: Two Years After the End of Roe
Mon, 12 Aug
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In what has become a depressing tradition, it's time for our annual look at the hell that SCOTUS unl...
Project 2025 (cont.): DEI for Men With Terrible Personalities
Mon, 5 Aug
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Jon Lovett joins Melissa and Leah to climb inside the mind of one of Project 2025’s biggest booste...
Project 2025: 900 Pages and 100% Deranged
Mon, 29 Jul
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Leah and Melissa introduce a new series on Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s deranged instru...
The Hubris and Hackery of Aileen Cannon
Mon, 22 Jul
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Kate and Leah attempt to wrap their heads around Aileen Cannon’s bonkers decision on the Trump cla...
We Read Josh Hawley's Book So You Don't Have To
Mon, 15 Jul
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Josh Hawley's book/polemic on the trials and tribulations of American men also gives us a window int...
A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Term
Mon, 8 Jul
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah steel themselves to look back on a truly terrible term for the ages. From SC...
SCOTUS Hands Trump Presidential Immunity
Mon, 1 Jul
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It’s the last decision day of the year, and SCOTUS goes out with a bang. Kate, Leah, and Melissa u...
The Supreme Court Makes Its Biggest Power Grab in a Generation
Sat, 29 Jun
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Leah, Melissa and Kate try to wrap their heads around SCOTUS throwing away 40 years of precedent tha...
SCOTUS Dodges the Question of Emergency Abortions
Fri, 28 Jun
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After accidentally uploading the decision in the EMTALA case, the Supreme Court released it for real...
SCOTUS Greenlights Government Corruption
Wed, 26 Jun
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate weigh the implications of Bloomberg’s scoop on EMTALA (apparently someone ...
A Very DC Saturday Night
Mon, 24 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As we wait for SCOTUS opinions in cases about presidential immunity, emergency abortions, the future...
SCOTUS's Indefensible Delay in Trump's Immunity Case
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 23:09:24 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The gang is back together! Ahead of the Strict Scrutiny live show on Saturday in DC, Kate, Melissa a...
Mifepristone Stays on the Market (live from Tribeca!)
Mon, 17 Jun
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Live from New York, it's Strict Scrutiny! Elie Mystal guest hosts with Kate and Melissa in front of ...
The Textualist Case for Mass Shootings
Fri, 14 Jun
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In an emergency episode, Leah and Melissa break down the Court's 6-3 decision to strike down a ban o...
Texas Doubles Down on Life-Threatening Abortion Ban
Mon, 10 Jun
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Melissa and Kate talk to Molly Duane, lawyer from the Center for Reproductive Rights, about the dish...
Flags, Feuds, and Roberts' Rebuff
Mon, 3 Jun
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Melissa and Kate recap the Supreme Court's latest opinions and catch up on the latest drama from the...
TRUMP FOUND GUILTY!
Fri, 31 May
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A jury of Donald Trump's peers finds him guilty on all 34 counts in the Manhattan election interfere...
Time for Some Bad Decisions
Mon, 27 May
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There are more red flags flying from House Alito! Plus, that same guy authored an opinion in a major...
The Alitos Let Their Freak Flag Fly
Mon, 20 May
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Leah and Melissa catch up on the Alitos' upside-down flag situation, an opinion preserving the fundi...
The Pick-Me Boys and Girls of the Federal Judiciary
Mon, 13 May
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Victoria Wenger of NAACP-LDF joins Kate and Leah for an update on the four years of litigation tryin...
Asked and Answered: A Listener Mailbag Episode!
Mon, 6 May
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate recap oral arguments in cases about unhoused people, immigration, and Starbu...
SCOTUS Seems to Normalize Authoritarianism
Mon, 29 Apr
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate recap the oral arguments in the Idaho case about the legality of abortions i...
Will SCOTUS Let January 6 Defendants Off the Hook?
Mon, 22 Apr
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate recap oral arguments in cases about January 6, political corruption, malicio...
SCOTUS’s Final Sitting of the Term Is A Doozy
Mon, 15 Apr
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In the next two weeks, SCOTUS will hear arguments in cases on political corruption, criminalizing ho...
Florida Becomes a Battleground for Reproductive Rights
Mon, 8 Apr
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Kate and Leah break down the latest court news with Errin Haines, Editor-at-Large for The 19th and h...
The Absurd Fiction of the Mifepristone Case
Mon, 1 Apr
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah recap the oral arguments in the case challenging the FDA's approval of mifep...
The Supreme Court Abortion Pill Case
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:00:58 +0000
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate give a quick take on the bottom line from the oral arguments in the medicati...
Texas, Immigration, and Easily Avoidable Chaos
Mon, 25 Mar
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Steve Vladeck joins Kate and Leah for the play-by-play of what happened with SB4, Texas's restrictiv...
Welcome to Conservative Grievance Week
Mon, 18 Mar
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week on two First Amendment cases that ask whether the RE...
The TLDR of Trump's Indictments
Mon, 11 Mar
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Our very own Melissa Murray has a new book out with co-author Andrew Weissmann-- The Trump Indictmen...
SCOTUS Restores Trump to the Colorado Ballot, Unanimously (Kind Of)
Tue, 5 Mar 2024 00:46:42 +0000
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The Supreme Court released its opinion in Trump v. Anderson, saying Colorado and other states can't ...
Content Moderation, Machine Guns, and Trump's Trial Calendar
Mon, 4 Mar
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Leah and Kate analyze the ramifications of the Supreme Court agreeing to hear Trump's immunity case....
The Alabama Supreme Court Embraces Fetal Personhood
Mon, 26 Feb
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Looks like we have to add a new segment to the show: Fetal Personhood Watch. Leah, Melissa, and Kate...
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly From State Courts
Mon, 19 Feb
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah preview the cases the Supreme Court will hear this week, explain the latest ...
SCOTUS Has Their Own Theories About Trump’s Eligibility
Mon, 12 Feb
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The Supreme Court heard arguments in the case about whether Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment di...
Why Did Trump Get Denied Immunity?
Wed, 7 Feb
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This morning, the US Court of Appeals for the DC circuit ruled that Donald Trump doesn't have immuni...
Does the Constitution Disqualify Trump from Presidency?
Mon, 5 Feb
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This week the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case about whether Donald Trump is eligible t...
E. Jean Carroll and Robbie Kaplan on Trump's "Defamation Rampage"
Fri, 2 Feb
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E. Jean Carroll and attorney Robbie Kaplan join us to share the process and aftermath of Carroll's d...
Who Has Final Authority At The Border?
Mon, 29 Jan
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah break down the legal fight in Texas at the U.S.-Mexico border, and the Supre...
AITA? SCOTUS Edition
Mon, 22 Jan
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Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a pair of cases that threaten to topple four de...
The Legality of Presidents Doing Whatever They Want
Mon, 15 Jan
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah recap oral arguments in cases about the No Fly List, the confrontation claus...
Trump's Eligibility, Cash for Clarence, and a Meditation for 2024
Mon, 8 Jan
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We're only one week into 2024, and there's so much news to catch up on! Melissa, Leah, and Kate disc...
New Year, Same Court
Mon, 1 Jan
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To start the new year off right, Jonathan Van Ness joins Kate, Leah, and Melissa to suggest some res...
Behind the Scenes of Overturning Roe v. Wade
Mon, 18 Dec
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Before we settle in for a long winter's nap, we have a LOT to catch up on. First, Jodi Kantor joins ...
Fake Cases, Fake Facts, Real Implications
Mon, 11 Dec
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah recap arguments in a big tax case, Moore v. United States, and a bankruptcy ...
Taking a Hatchet to Government Agencies
Mon, 4 Dec
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate recap the arguments in the hugely important administrative law case, SEC v. ...
A Deregulatory Sh*t Show Waiting to Happen
Mon, 27 Nov
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For its final sitting of 2023, the Supreme Court will hear cases on the Armed Career Criminal Act, d...
A Code of Misconduct
Mon, 20 Nov
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After months of public pressure, the Supreme Court has released its newly adopted code of ethics. Bu...
The Supreme Court's Second Amendment Mess
Mon, 13 Nov
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah recap the arguments in United States v. Rahimi, the case about the constitut...
Doing Government on Twitter
Mon, 6 Nov
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate recap cases the Supreme Court heard last week about whether government offic...
Trump's Legal Defense is Dumb AF
Mon, 30 Oct
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate get up to date on the various cases against former President Trump and analy...
Texas is a Magic 8 Ball for the Country
Mon, 23 Oct
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ProPublica's Andrea Bernstein joins Kate and Leah to talk about the new investigative podcast, "We D...
Big BROTUS Energy
Mon, 16 Oct
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah recap the oral arguments the Supreme Court heard last week, including a big ...
Not Especially Judicious
Mon, 9 Oct
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah recap oral arguments in the cases the Supreme Court heard last week, includi...
What Fresh Hell Will This Supreme Court Term Bring?
Mon, 2 Oct
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It's the start of a new Supreme Court term... and the start of Strict Scrutiny's fifth season! While...
Will the Government (as we know it) Still Be Constitutional?
Mon, 25 Sep
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Do you feel that chill in the air? It’s almost the first Monday of October and that means a new SC...
Lights, Camera, SCOTUS!
Mon, 18 Sep
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On September 22, Showtime and Paramount+ will release the first episode of Deadlocked: How America S...
KBJ's Rookie Year
Mon, 11 Sep
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Being a Supreme Court podcast means we spend much of the year in dystopia. So just this once, let's ...
After Affirmative Action
Mon, 4 Sep
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Juvaria Khan, founder of The Appellate Project, joins Melissa, Kate, and Leah to catch up on the fal...
Can These Courts Be Reformed?
Mon, 28 Aug
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate invite two guests to zoom out and analyze how the current Supreme Court got ...
The Aesthetic Enjoyment of Other People’s Uteruses
Mon, 21 Aug
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Easha Anand of Stanford's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic joins Kate, Melissa, and Leah to lay out w...
The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
Mon, 14 Aug
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It's been 10 years since the Supreme Court started to dismantle the Voting Rights Act in Shelby Coun...
The Dobbs Decision Hasn't Aged Well
Mon, 7 Aug
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It's been over a year since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion in ...
Trump Indicted Again Again
Wed, 2 Aug
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Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for a third time-- this time in a Washington, DC, ca...
America's First Civil Rights Movement
Mon, 31 Jul
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First things first, Melissa and Leah break down Sam Alito's latest airing of grievances in the Wall ...
BONUS: #WITHpod & Strict Scrutiny Crossover
Wed, 26 Jul
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Leah, Kate, and Melissa join MSNBC's Chris Hayes (aka Mr. Kate Shaw) to fully process the drama of t...
Shining Light on the Shadow Docket
Mon, 24 Jul
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Leah, Kate, and Melissa talk to Steve Vladeck about his new book, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme...
Clarence Thomas's America
Mon, 17 Jul
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Joel Anderson, host of Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas, joins Melissa and Kate to analyze the jus...
How the Federalist Society Took Over
Mon, 10 Jul
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We're kicking off the Strict Scrutiny Summer Reading List with a wild ride through the history of th...
What else can the Supreme Court get away with?
Mon, 3 Jul
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate recap the last Supreme Court term, as the justices speed off on their summer...
Student Debt Relief Bad, Bigotry Good
Fri, 30 Jun
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The Supreme Court ended its term today with a double whammy, issuing opinions in the 303 Creative ca...
The End of Affirmative Action
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 23:55:49 +0000
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Today the Supreme Court delivered its opinion in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and...
Is ISL dead? IDK.
Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:54:39 +0000
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The Supreme Court handed down its decision in Moore v. Harper today, saying that state legislatures ...
A Fear of Too Much Justice
Mon, 26 Jun
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Leah and Kate delve in to the latest chapter of Supreme Court justices going on secret fancy vacatio...
BONUS: This Land on the Indian Child Welfare Act
Sat, 24 Jun
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Last week the Supreme Court made an historic ruling upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act. Rebecca ...
Good News for the Indian Child Welfare Act
Mon, 19 Jun
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The Supreme Court released its opinion in Haaland vs. Brackeen, a case that challenged the constitut...
Trump Arraigned and Arrested (BONUS episode)
Wed, 14 Jun
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Former President Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 counts in the case against him for allegedly mishand...
A Win for Multiracial Democracy
Mon, 12 Jun
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Finally, some good news! The Supreme Court's ruling in Allen v. Milligan preserves section 2 of the ...
"Not That Bad" is Still Bad!
Mon, 5 Jun
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate talk to Jenny Hunter, a labor lawyer and union consultant, about the recent ...
A Wrecking Ball to Environmental Law
Mon, 29 May
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Sam Sankar of Earthjustice joins Leah and guest host Steven Mazie of The Economist to cover the Supr...
Anti-Abortion Litigation at Warp Speed
Mon, 22 May
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah recap the Supreme Court's recent opinions about the Internet and intellectua...
You Can Crime If You Want To
Mon, 15 May
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah cover the gift that keeps on giving-- a.k.a. billionaire Harlan Crow, who ca...
Asked and Answered: A Listener Mailbag Episode!
Mon, 8 May
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It's our first ever listener mailbag episode of Strict Scrutiny! You asked, we answered-- is court e...
Ethics, Shmethics
Mon, 1 May
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The stories about federal judges doing shady things just keep coming. Gabe Roth, executive director ...
What's next for mifepristone?
Mon, 24 Apr
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Kate and Leah explain the Supreme Court's decision to stay the ban on mifepristone-- meaning the med...
The Ultimate in Anti-Abortion Exceptionalism
Mon, 17 Apr
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Kate and Leah talk to ProPublica's Justin Elliott about the latest findings in Clarence Thomas and H...
Mifepristone, Mega Yachts, and Maskgate
Mon, 10 Apr
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah explain the ruling out of Texas that could strip mifepristone, one of two dr...
The Arrest is History
Wed, 5 Apr
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It’s a Strict Scrutiny and Pod Save America crossover! Jon, Jon, and Tommy get together with Leah ...
The Supreme Importance of Wisconsin's Election
Mon, 3 Apr
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Kate and Leah host Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices Rebecca Dallet and Jill Karofsky in a live show ...
Is It Infringement If It's Funny?
Mon, 27 Mar
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Strict Scrutiny takes Hawaii! Senator Mazie Hirono joins Kate, Leah, and Melissa for a live show at ...
Fueling the Conservative Grievance Machine
Mon, 20 Mar
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate preview three Supreme Court cases up for argument this week. The cases focus...
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
Mon, 13 Mar
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First things first: WE WON AN AMBIE! Leah, Kate, and Melissa gather to raise a glass and celebrate...
Ascertaining the Majorness of Student Debt Relief
Mon, 6 Mar
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What’s going to happen to the federal student debt relief plan? Melissa, Leah and Kate give listen...
Not the Nine Greatest Experts on the Internet
Mon, 27 Feb
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Leah and Kate recap the arguments in the big Internet cases the Supreme Court heard last week. Plus,...
Will the Supreme Court break the Internet?
Mon, 20 Feb
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Danielle Citron, author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digi...
The Originalist Case for Terrorizing Women
Mon, 13 Feb
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Leah and Kate talk to Jessica Valenti, writer of the Substack newsletter “Abortion, Every Day,” ...
The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage
Mon, 6 Feb
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Melissa and Kate talk with Sasha Issenberg, journalist and political science professor at UCLA, abou...
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
Mon, 30 Jan
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Melissa interviews Dahlia Lithwick about her best-selling book Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the...
Cosplaying an Investigation
Mon, 23 Jan
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Kate and Leah were live from the University of Pennsylvania in Strict Scrutiny's first live show of ...
Busting Unions and Dodging Opinions
Mon, 16 Jan
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah recap the Supreme Court's the first oral arguments of 2023, which includes c...
The Long Game to Weaken Workers' Rights
Mon, 9 Jan
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah reconvene to preview the cases the Supreme Court will hear in its January si...
Civil Rights Queen
Mon, 26 Dec
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin joins Melissa and Kate to discuss her book Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Mo...
All I Want For Christmas Is Democracy
Mon, 19 Dec
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Before we can really get into the holiday spirit, we have to deal with the lump of coal the Supreme ...
How the 303 Creative case threatens to roll back the 21st century
Mon, 12 Dec
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The Supreme Court recently heard 2.5 hours of oral arguments in 303 Creative v. Elenis-- the case ab...
Making Fraud Great Again
Mon, 5 Dec
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Melissa and Kate recap oral arguments in a couple of cases that could limit the reach of federal fra...
Turning Fan Fiction Into Reality
Mon, 28 Nov
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah preview the cases that the Supreme Court will hear in December-- from electi...
Justice Samuel A-leak-o?
Mon, 21 Nov
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On Saturday, the New York Times published a piece about a former anti-abortion leader's claim that h...
The Uncertain Future of the Indian Child Welfare Act
Mon, 14 Nov
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Rebecca Nagle, host of Crooked Media's This Land, joins Melissa, Leah, and Kate to recap the argumen...
Affirmative Action Reaction
Mon, 7 Nov
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Leah, Kate, and Melissa recap the many, many hours of oral arguments in the affirmative action cases...
Open Season on Precedents
Sun, 30 Oct
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On Halloween, the Supreme Court will hear pair of cases challenging affirmative action in university...
Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers
Mon, 24 Oct
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Kate talks with Deborah Tuerkheimer about her recent book, Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Prote...
Pigs, Prince, and Proven Innocence
Mon, 17 Oct
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah recap some of the cases argued at the Supreme Court last week: Reed v. Goert...
Limiting the Inevitable Damage
Mon, 10 Oct
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah welcome Sam Sankar of Earthjustice and Deuel Ross of NAACP Legal Defense and...
How SCOTUS Distorts Democracy
Mon, 3 Oct
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It feels like we're still processing the end of last term, but alas, the first Monday in October is ...
Judicial Joyriding
Mon, 26 Sep
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For the University of Michigan's Homecoming weekend, we held a special live recording for our season...
Unprincipled and Inconsistent Voting Rights Shenanigans
Mon, 19 Sep
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Leah talks with Wilfred Codrington III about his article, "Purcell in Pandemic," which appeared in t...
Please Pay Attention to State Courts and Constitutions
Mon, 12 Sep
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Kate, Leah, and Melissa convene a panel to persuade you that the fight for progressive causes has to...
Debunking the Independent State Legislature Fantasy
Mon, 5 Sep
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With guests Jamelle Bouie and Carolyn Shapiro, Kate and Leah analyze the fan fiction that is the Ind...
Fossil Fuel Rules Everything Around Me
Mon, 29 Aug
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse joins Leah and Melissa for a deep dive into West Virginia v. EPA, the Sup...
What the Fight After Roe Actually Looks Like
Mon, 22 Aug
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Somehow, it's only been less than two months since the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade with thei...
Women Are Not Without Power
Mon, 15 Aug
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Even though it's summer, there's a lot to catch up on in the legal world! Leah and Melissa talk with...
Hostility to Mercy
Mon, 8 Aug
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Leah talks with Lee Kovarsky of the Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas about the S...
Law & Religion on the Barrett Court
Mon, 1 Aug
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It's a deep dive into law and religion in this conservative supermajority iteration of the Supreme C...
The Family Roe: An American Story
Mon, 25 Jul
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Melissa interviews journalist Joshua Prager about his book, The Family Roe: An American Story. Prage...
How Mitch Rigged the Courts
Mon, 18 Jul
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While the Supreme Court gets all the focus, lower federal courts are just as much in need of reform....
Break Glass in Case of Emergency
Mon, 11 Jul
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It was a long term. It's over. Leah, Melissa, and Kate recap what all happened, what we maybe learne...
Smashing Precedents and Making Up Facts
Mon, 4 Jul
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The Supreme Court finally finished the OT2021 term-- and it was a doozy. Kate and Leah recap the las...
Just how bad is the Supreme Court's EPA decision?
Fri, 1 Jul
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Kate and Leah break down the "free-wheeling, free association analysis" of the Supreme Court's opini...
This Maximalist Conservative Supermajority
Mon, 27 Jun
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The pace of opinion releases has accelerated considerably as we speed toward the end of June and the...
Roe is dead. Now what?
Sat, 25 Jun
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Today the Supreme Court issued their opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. It ove...
How SCOTUS gutted our gun laws
Fri, 24 Jun
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Today the Supreme Court released its opinion in NYSRPA v. Bruen, saying that the constitutional righ...
Reeking of Impropriety
Mon, 20 Jun
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The Supreme Court handed down 11 opinions last week-- 18 more to go. Leah and Melissa recap the outc...
Queer Supremacy (A Pride Special)
Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0000
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It's a special Pride episode of Strict Scrutiny! Special guests Joshua Matz and Chase Strangio join ...
The Newly Constituted and Restless
Mon, 13 Jun
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The Supreme Court released four opinions last week (still 20-something to go before the end of the t...
Allow Me To Retort
Mon, 6 Jun
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Melissa interviews Elie Mystal about his new book, Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Co...
Innocence Isn't Enough
Mon, 30 May
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Investigative journalist Liliana Segura joins Kate, Melissa, and Leah to tell the story of Barry Jon...
The Only Loser is the Public
Mon, 23 May
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Ellen Weintraub, commissioner of the Federal Election Commission since 2002, joins Kate and Leah to ...
What's next in a post-Roe world
Mon, 16 May
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Kate and Leah spend some additional time on possible fallout from a Dobbs opinion overruling or evis...
Stay Mad Like Sam
Mon, 9 May
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah recap the remaining arguments from the April session: Nance v. Ward [1:38] a...
What the SCOTUS leak could mean for abortion
Tue, 3 May 2022 22:40:00 +0000
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Kate, Leah and Melissa get together for an emergency episode to discuss a leaked draft Supreme Court...
The Inner Life of Coach Kavanaugh
Mon, 2 May
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Leah, Kate, and Melissa bring you a jam-packed show recapping news, arguments, and opinions from the...
Coup, But Make It Look Legal
Mon, 25 Apr
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Kate's off glamping, so Leah and Melissa are left to their own devices to recap SCOTUS news [1:37], ...
The Non-Existent Establishment Clause
Mon, 18 Apr
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Leah, Kate, and Melissa catch up on SCOTUS news (including more shadow docket activity and shady Tho...
Justice on the Brink
Mon, 11 Apr
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Melissa interviews Linda Greenhouse about her new book, Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth...
Light Conspiracy Theories
Mon, 4 Apr
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Leah and Kate catch up on all SCOTUS-related "antics" that happened in March-- including the latest ...
Backwards and in High Heels
Mon, 28 Mar
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Leah, Kate, and Melissa watched all the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson-- so y...
Go Down Clutching the Constitution
Mon, 21 Mar
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Rebecca Nagle, host of This Land, joins Leah and Kate to discuss the issues at stake in Brackeen v. ...
Living Textualism
Mon, 14 Mar
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Kate and Leah talk with Cary Franklin, the McDonald/Wright Chair of Law and Faculty Director of the ...
Canon Wars
Mon, 7 Mar
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Rachel Rothschild, legal fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity, joins Kate and Melissa to rec...
Indian Law Hall of Fame
Thu, 3 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000
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Leah recaps Denezpi v. United States, an important case about tribal sovereignty, with Matthew Fletc...
KBJ, All the Way!
Mon, 28 Feb
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Melissa, Kate, & Leah discuss the historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson – KBJ, Yay! –...
I Don't Wanna
Sat, 26 Feb
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Leah discusses the upcoming climate change case, West Virginia v. EPA, with Lisa Heinzerling and ...
We're Doing S'mores
Mon, 21 Feb
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Leah, Kate, & Melissa run through a bunch of Court adjacent news-- including this Jane Mayer piece a...
Speedy Sonia
Wed, 16 Feb
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Leah's dreams come true with an episode all about a resentencing case, and the meaning of the First ...
Party Like It's 1935
Mon, 14 Feb
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah interview Professors Julian Davis Mortenson and Nick Bagley about the nondel...
Further Erosion
Wed, 9 Feb
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Deuel Ross, senior counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, joins Leah and Kate to discuss the Supre...
Supreme Ambition
Mon, 7 Feb
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah sit down with Ruth Marcus, the author of Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh a...
Mensch On The Bench
Mon, 31 Jan
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Kate, Melissa, & Leah are joined by Dean Risa Goluboff & Tejas Narechania for a retrospective on Jus...
Comeback Kid
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:59:57 +0000
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Our boy Steve is retiring. Here are our thoughts on the timing, his legacy, and potential successors...
Putting the Tea in Totenberg
Mon, 24 Jan
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Nina Totenberg joins the podcast to discuss her story that broke the Internet and sent the Court int...
BONUS: Strict Scrutiny x Why Is This Happening?
Wed, 19 Jan
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The ladies of Strict Scrutiny join forces with Why Is This Happening?, hosted by Chris Hayes (aka Mr...
Hot Potato
Mon, 17 Jan
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Payvand Ahdout, Assistant Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law and federal court...
Putting the F in FDR
Fri, 14 Jan
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate recap the Supreme Court’s opinions invalidating the Biden administration’...
Justice for Snowflake
Mon, 10 Jan
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Leah, Melissa, & Kate preview the cases to be argued in the January sitting (other than the test-and...
No Laws, Just Vibes
Sat, 8 Jan
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah recap oral arguments in two emergency applications related to Biden administ...
Laboratories of Autocracy
Mon, 3 Jan
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah get to spend an entire show on one of their favorite topics -- Sam Alito. Th...
The People's Constitution
Mon, 27 Dec
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Leah is joined by Wilfred Codrington III to discuss his co-authored book The People’s Constitution...
Our Favorite Things, 2021
Mon, 20 Dec
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate round out 2021 with a discussion of their favorite things. To wearWool leg ...
The Marshmallow Experiment
Mon, 13 Dec
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We recap the second week of the December sitting, which is (more than) enough to justify a break for...
A Uterus, If You Can Keep It
Fri, 10 Dec
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Commander Vladeck returns to break down what the Supreme Court’s decision in the SB8 case does and...
Let's Be Legends
Mon, 6 Dec
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Tiffany Wright joins the show to recap last week’s oral arguments and to preview the second week o...
Fourth Dimension Feminism
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 02:13:26 +0000
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah recap oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the ...
Sad Girl Autumn
Mon, 29 Nov
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It’s sad girl autumn at the Supreme Court -- Melissa, Kate, and Leah preview the upcoming cases, i...
At Liberty: This Fall’s Fight Against Forced Pregnancy
Mon, 22 Nov
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In October, Melissa joined the ACLU's podcast At Liberty to discuss the state of abortion rights in ...
Self-Own Sam
Mon, 15 Nov
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Professor Lisa Eskow joins the podcast to discuss some Justices’ willingness to engage in ecclesia...
Have They Heard of Frat Houses?
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 21:42:02 +0000
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Leah talks to Ahilan Arulanantham about the argument in FBI v. Fazaga, the case challenging the gove...
Arbitration Rat
Mon, 8 Nov
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Melissa, Leah, & Kate recap the remaining cases from the first week of November -- and focus on Hous...
Foreign in a Domestic Sense
Fri, 5 Nov
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Kate speaks with Juan Perla and Neil Weare about United States v. Vaello-Madero, which will be argue...
Some Geniuses
Tue, 2 Nov 2021 18:26:08 +0000
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah recap the oral arguments in the S.B. 8 cases on Monday, November 1st. Get ...
That’s Just Like, Your Opinion, Man
Mon, 1 Nov
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah preview the whopper first week of the November sitting. They are joined by J...
Fatally Unequal
Mon, 25 Oct
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Melissa talks with Carol Anderson about her book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal Ame...
Watch This Space
Fri, 22 Oct
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A quick breakdown on what the Court did and didn’t do today (Friday, October 22) in the cases agai...
Per My Last Email
Mon, 18 Oct
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah recap the last week of the October sitting and some developments in the S.B....
Latte Liberal
Mon, 11 Oct
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate recap the first week of the October sitting. Get tickets for STRICT SCRUTI...
Troll World Tour
Mon, 4 Oct
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Dahlia Lithwick joins us for a preview of this monster term, and a breakdown of … that Alito speec...
Hashtag YOLO
Mon, 27 Sep
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Recorded in partnership with the 2021 Texas Tribune festival, Dahlia Lithwick joins us to discuss th...
Sounds Legit
Mon, 20 Sep
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Leah is joined by Jeannie Suk Gersen and Deeva Shah to discuss an important case, Roe v. United Stat...
Meager Sentences
Mon, 13 Sep
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Kate and Leah are joined by Elizabeth Wydra and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick to discuss more of the Suprem...
Messing with Texas
Sat, 11 Sep
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate reconvene for another emergency podcast on Texas SB8, which is now being cha...
Untitled Dating Show
Mon, 6 Sep
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It’s law school advice time, Strict Scrutiny style! Melissa and Leah chat with Mark Moran, graduat...
Flagrantly Unconstitutional
Sat, 4 Sep
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Melissa, Kate, & Leah get together again to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in the Texas SB8 ...
Message Received
Thu, 2 Sep 2021 00:23:29 +0000
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Commander Professor Steve Vladeck joins us for an emergency episode about SB8, the most restrictive ...
Sexual Justice
Mon, 30 Aug
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Kate and Leah talk with Alexandra Brodsky, founding co-director of Know Your IX and author of Sexual...
How Rights Went Wrong
Mon, 23 Aug
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Kate and Leah talk with Jamal Greene about his new book, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession wi...
Open Wound
Mon, 16 Aug
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Melissa talks reparations with Katherine Franke, Columbia Law Professor and author of Repair: Redeem...
Superminority Status
Mon, 9 Aug
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Melissa and Leah are joined by Easha Anand (MacArthur Justice Center) and Kate Levine (Cardozo Unive...
Born Tired
Mon, 2 Aug
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In collaboration with The Appellate Project, Leah, Kate, and Melissa talk to Debo Adegbile and Bruce...
Anti-Democratic Super Weapon
Mon, 26 Jul
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It’s Supreme Court reform summer! On this episode, Leah talks to Professor Nikolas Bowie about his...
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue
Mon, 19 Jul
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Melissa interviews Berkeley Law Professor Amanda Tyler about the book she co-wrote with the late Jus...
Roses & Thorns
Mon, 12 Jul
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It’s here … our term recap! We go over all the roses and thorns from OT2020, or at least as much...
Textually Challenged
Mon, 5 Jul
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For a further break down of the opinion that is definitely not necessary to enforce the Voting Right...
An Insult to History
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 23:50:50 +0000
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With SCOTUS finishing in July, Leah recaps the end of the term (end of democracy?) cases, Brnovich ...
Tired of These Fools
Mon, 28 Jun
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On June 23rd, we joined the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, together with the Western Dis...
Comrade Thomas
Fri, 25 Jun
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Kate and Leah recap the big FRIDAY, FRIDAY at the Supreme Court -- two statutory interpretation case...
Cheerleaders for Democracy
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:41:40 +0000
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Kate and Leah recap four opinions: Lange v. California; Mahanoy Area School District v. BL; Collins ...
Love and Basketball
Mon, 21 Jun
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Leah and Melissa do a quick dash through Monday’s opinions in Arthrex, NCAA v. Alston, and Goldman...
Amuse Bouche
Fri, 18 Jun
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Kate and Melissa recap two opinions, California v. Texas (the ACA case) and Fulton v. City of Philad...
State Courts Are Where It's At
Tue, 15 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000
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Leah, Kate, and Melissa recap an important CVSG, the Court’s opinions (in Gary, Greer, and Terry),...
Presto!
Fri, 11 Jun
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah get together to discuss Justice Kagan’s approach to statutory interpretati...
Fetishistically Textualist
Fri, 4 Jun
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate recap the last week of opinions (Van Buren v. United States, Garland v. Dai,...
Death Eaters
Mon, 31 May
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Melissa interviews Ian Millhiser about his new book, The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court Is R...
Siren Songs
Wed, 26 May
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Kate, Melissa, and Leah notice the siren song of purposivism in some of the Court’s recent statuto...
Hysterical Lady Brains
Mon, 24 May
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah break down the recent cert grants, the oral argument in Terry v. United Stat...
When There Are 535
Mon, 17 May
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In March, the NYU School of Law hosted the the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network's symposium on ...
Drained Pool Politics
Mon, 10 May
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Kate & Melissa host Heather McGhee to discuss her new book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyon...
Burn Book on Purposivism
Mon, 3 May
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Leah and Kate recap the textualist bonanza in Niz-Chavez v. Garland, and the recent arguments in Ame...
Barking Goldfish
Mon, 26 Apr
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Kate, Leah, and Melissa go over new opinion, recap the previous week of oral arguments, and preview ...
Right for the Wrong Reasons
Mon, 19 Apr
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Kate and Melissa are joined by special guests Juvaria Khan, Matthew Fletcher, and Carmen Iguina Gonz...
Tsunami of Slime
Mon, 12 Apr
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Leah and Kate are joined by Sen. Sheldon “Whiteboard” Whitehouse to discuss the courts subcommit...
Sausage Fest
Mon, 5 Apr
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“Live” from Yale Law’s ACS chapter, Leah and Kate recap the end of the March sitting, break do...
Spaceships and Serial Killers
Mon, 29 Mar
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Melissa and special guest Ginger Anders recap the first week of the March sitting and preview the se...
Dear Steve
Mon, 22 Mar
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah preview the March sitting and have a romp through court culture — cancel c...
Amend: The Fight for America
Mon, 15 Mar
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah are joined by Robe Imbriano, producer of Amend: The Fight for America, and M...
Get to the Punchline
Mon, 8 Mar
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Leah and Kate recap some February arguments (Brnovich v. DNC and United States v. Arthrex) before pl...
Toddler Logic
Mon, 1 Mar
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Leah is joined by Josie Duffy Rice, President of the Appeal, and Jay Willis, senior contributor at t...
Wilding Out
Mon, 22 Feb
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Melissa, Kate, and Leah recap opinions, preview the first week of arguments in the February sitting,...
Dude Process
Mon, 15 Feb
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Kate and Leah do a “snap” episode on the most recent impeachment proceedings. Get tickets for ...
Gold Highways
Mon, 8 Feb
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Leah and Kate are joined by David Schleicher and Sam Moyn, cohosts and creators of “Digging A Hole...
Dirty Damages
Mon, 1 Feb
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate recap the January sitting and the inauguration festivities. They also extend...
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Mon, 25 Jan
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate are joined by Julie Cohen, Betsy West and Talleah Bridges McMahon, the team ...
Rinse & Repeat
Wed, 20 Jan
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate are joined by Rutgers Law Dean Kim Mutcherson, host of “The Power of Attor...
The Meme Lives
Mon, 11 Jan
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate discuss the insurrection, their new BFF Joe Manchin, the upcoming January si...
No Coup For You
Mon, 28 Dec
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In this monster episode, Leah, Melissa, and Kate recap all of the December arguments, and the opinio...
Our Favorite Things
Wed, 23 Dec
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Melissa, Leah, and Kate bring some BIG OPRAH ENERGY to share some of their favorite things around th...
When Reality Is Surreal
Mon, 21 Dec
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Leah and Melissa are joined by Alexandra Petri, author of Nothing Is Wrong And Here Is Why, and Wash...
Normal Scrutiny
Mon, 14 Dec
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Leah and Melissa are joined by the first repeat guest on Strict Scrutiny, Elie Mystal, to discuss hi...
Big Whiteboard Energy
Mon, 7 Dec
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It’s the episode you’ve been waiting for – our breakdown of Justice Alito’s keynote speech a...
Call For Filings!
Sun, 6 Dec
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Send us your favorite, crazy election law filings from this cycle. And we'll do a dramatic reading! ...
Unfeathered Discretion
Mon, 30 Nov
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Leah and Melissa preview the first week of the December sitting and recap a lot of Supreme Court and...
Cute as a Button
Mon, 23 Nov
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Leah and Melissa and Kate are joined by Meera Deo, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of La...
Vice Signaling
Mon, 16 Nov
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Leah and Kate are joined by Marin Levy to recap the Affordable Care Act argument and … wonder abou...
Unlawful Generally
Mon, 9 Nov
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Kate and Leah break down the first week of arguments from the November sitting, as well as some deve...
Yes, Virginia
Mon, 2 Nov
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate take a virtual road trip to UVA Law to dish on the upcoming November sitting...
Hot Mess
Wed, 28 Oct
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate, discuss some recent activity on the Court’s “shadow docket” related t...
We The Women
Mon, 26 Oct
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Kate and Melissa talk with Julie Suk, author of We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal R...
Big Dog Energy
Mon, 19 Oct
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate discuss some of the highlights of the October sitting, as well as the conclu...
Not A Mystery
Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:30:18 +0000
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Leah and Kate recap the first three days of the confirmation hearings so you don’t have to actuall...
The Red Death
Mon, 12 Oct
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Leah and Melissa recap the first week of the October sitting, as well as all of the beginning of ter...
Fire Season
Mon, 5 Oct
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate bring their A+ Zoom game to NYU School of Law for a live-ish preview of the ...
The Women Tell All
Mon, 28 Sep
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate discuss the President’s nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ju...
In Memoriam
Mon, 21 Sep
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Leah, Melissa, Kate are joined by Anne Joseph O’Connell, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at S...
I Want More
Mon, 14 Sep
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Leah and Melissa interview Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson about their book Shortli...
Courts of the Conqueror
Mon, 7 Sep
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Leah is joined by Liz Reese, a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, for a deep di...
What Would Chief Justice Roberts Do?
Mon, 31 Aug
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Leah, Kate, and Melissa are joined by Dale Ho, director of the Voting Rights Project at the ACLU and...
Join Your Conflagrations
Wed, 26 Aug
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Leah, Kate, and Melissa are joined by Josie Duffy Rice, the President of The Appeal, to discuss the ...
RERELEASE: Bonus Pod- Melissa Murray on ACLU's "At Liberty"!
Mon, 24 Aug
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Melissa joins the ACLU's Emerson Sykes for an episode of their podcast, At Liberty. The Supreme Cour...
The Civility Alarm
Mon, 17 Aug
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Leah is joined by Amir Ali and Devi Rao from the Supreme Court & Appellate Program of the MacArthur ...
Magical Moment
Mon, 10 Aug
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Leah and Kate are joined by Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of NAACP LDF. They furth...
Five-Dimensional Chess
Mon, 3 Aug
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Melissa talks with CNN's Joan Biskupic, author of The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief J...
"Three Generations of Imbeciles"
Mon, 27 Jul
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Melissa talks with Adam Cohen about his book Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, And Th...
How To Train Your Killer Whale
Mon, 20 Jul
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Leah Melissa, Jaime, and Kate recap the last term -- high points (flushgate), low points (you’ve h...
Diploma Privilege
Mon, 13 Jul
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Leah is joined by Dr. Pilar Escontrias, one of the founders of United for Diploma Privilege. United ...
Well Played, Sirs
Wed, 8 Jul
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*another airhorn* Leah and Melissa break down the Court's major contraception case. Welcome to Gilea...
Trollito
Mon, 6 Jul
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Leah and Kate discuss four big Supreme Court cases that came down last week (June Medical with spe...
Save Your Yarn
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 02:44:13 +0000
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*airhorn* The Supreme Court released the opinion in June Medical Services v. Russo-- this term's big...
Thanks For The Footnote
Mon, 29 Jun
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate are joined by Anil Kalhan to break down the Supreme Court’s important immi...
PODIVERSARY GIVEAWAY
Wed, 24 Jun
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A giveaway to mark our one year podiversary! Get tickets for STRICT SCRUTINY LIVE – The Bad Deci...
Second Glow HH!
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:32:59 +0000
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A giveaway for law students and recent graduates to come to our second virtual happy hour for glow s...
2020 Bingo Card
Mon, 22 Jun
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Leah and Melissa are joined by special guest Chase Strangio for a big recap episode of a big week. T...
Josh Hawley's Tears
Fri, 19 Jun
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate are joined by Luis Cortes-Romero to recap the DACA-licious DACA opinion that...
Carpool Dad
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:00:06 +0000
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Melissa and Leah are joined by Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, to discuss why the...
Turd In The Punch Bowl
Mon, 15 Jun
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Leah, Melissa, and Kate offer a quick recap and analysis of the 6-3 opinion in Bostock v. Clayton Co...
Blood-Stained Bunny Costume
Mon, 15 Jun
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Because constitutional law makes everything more fun, Leah and Melissa decided to spot constitutiona...
Made Up Immunities
Mon, 8 Jun
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Kate and Jaime discuss contributors to injustice--doctrines that encourage (or at least immunize) ra...
June First
Mon, 1 Jun
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We chose not to release our regularly scheduled episode today in light of the nationwide protests. ...
What's The Mouse Going To Do?
Mon, 25 May
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Kate and Leah recap the other big argument from the May sitting they didn’t get a chance to last t...
Earth to Nancy
Mon, 18 May
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Leah and Kate break down the major arguments in the presidential immunity and subpoena cases as well...
Flushgate
Mon, 11 May
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In this jam-packed episode, Jaime and Melissa recap the Supreme Court’s first-ever telephonic argu...
Happy Hour!
Tue, 5 May 2020 13:15:01 +0000
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We'll be hosting a happy hour to thank our glow subscribers! Get tickets for STRICT SCRUTINY LIVE ...
Stay Frustrated
Mon, 4 May
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Kate and Melissa are joined by special guest Emily Bazelon to talk about her New York Times Magazine...
Pit of Piranhas
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:00:09 +0000
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In this episode, Melissa talks shop with Jess Bravin, who covers the Court for the Wall Street Jo...
Workplace Misconduct And The Federal Courts
Mon, 27 Apr
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Leah and Jaime are joined by Deeva Shah (from Law Clerks for Workplace Accountability) and Sejal Sin...
Podapalooza Live Event
Fri, 24 Apr
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We'll be hosting a live Q&A event as part of podapalooza this Sunday (April 26) at 1 PM ET! Get...
Podapalooza Teaser
Wed, 22 Apr
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This is just a reminder to sign up for podapalooza -- happening this weekend! You can sign up at plz...
Stop Trying To Make Democracy Happen
Mon, 20 Apr
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On this special episode, prepared for PODAPALOOZA, Leah, Melissa, Jaime, and Kate discuss some COVID...
BONUS: Supreme Inequality with Adam Cohen
Mon, 13 Apr
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Back in February, when crowds were still a thing, Melissa interviewed Adam Cohen about his new book,...
Build A Bridge
Mon, 6 Apr
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A special opinions episode! The Supreme Court has issued a lot of opinions recently, and we wanted t...
Throwing Elbows
Mon, 30 Mar
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Leah and Jaime recap other arguments from the February sitting that was a lifetime ago! They cover...
We See You, Steve
Mon, 23 Mar
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Just what you need for quarantine-- a whole episode recapping the arguments in June Medical Services...
The Ghost of Phyllis Schlafly
Mon, 2 Mar
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Kate and Melissa join forces with Lauren Moxley, creator of The Ginsburg Tapes, for an exploration o...
No Jonathans Or Pauls
Mon, 24 Feb
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Boston University School of Law put together an amazing live show! Leah, Melissa, and Jaime are join...
BONUS: Jaime Santos on Our Curious Amalgam
Mon, 17 Feb
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Jaime Santos joins John Roberti and Christima Ma from Our Curious Amalgam to talk antitrust and the ...
Cassandra Moment
Mon, 27 Jan
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While Kate and Jaime recover from the live show, Leah and Melissa bring some exciting impeachment up...
Standing Cheese
Mon, 20 Jan
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In the very first live show, Strict Scrutiny goes blue at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor! ...
Criminally Petty
Mon, 13 Jan
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Kate and Melissa preview the January sitting, including Bridge-gate, some fashion-y trademark cases,...
BONUS: Kate Shaw on Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes
Mon, 23 Dec
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It's a mash-up! Kate Shaw joins Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes to talk all things impeachme...
Not Afraid of Garland
Mon, 16 Dec
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Melissa and Jaime deck the halls with argument recaps, cert grants, and opinions-- plus some specula...
Here Come the Generals
Wed, 11 Dec
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Jaime, Kate, and Melissa break down the DACA argument and speak with Luis Cortes, who worked on the ...
Moot and Rally
Mon, 2 Dec
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Leah and Kate discuss a case that isn’t even a real case involving a real law, as well as the very...
Reproductive Rights & Justice Stories (Melissa Murray, Kate Shaw, Reva Siegel & Rebecca Traister live at the Brennan Center)
Wed, 27 Nov
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In this special bonus episode, Melissa and Kate are joined by co-editor Reva Siegel to discuss their...
This is Kansas
Mon, 18 Nov
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Leah and Jaime recap a lot of the big November cases, including Kansas v. Glover, County of Maui v. ...
BONUS: Melissa Murray on ACLU's "At Liberty"
Mon, 11 Nov
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The Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia, the landmark ACLU ...
Where My Girls At?
Mon, 4 Nov
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On this episode, Kate and Melissa talk breaking SCOTUS news; preview three cases from the upcoming N...
Repeat Players
Mon, 28 Oct
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Leah and Jaime recap some of the Supreme Court’s October cases, including Ramos v. Louisiana, Math...
Rick Perry and the German Policeman
Mon, 21 Oct
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On this special Title VII episode, Leah, Jaime, and Kate are joined by a special guest – Jay Austi...
Calm Before the Storm
Mon, 7 Oct
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On this episode, Melissa and Kate break down the Harvard affirmative action case just decided by a M...
Eat Your Spinach
Mon, 30 Sep
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After a fun game of “how I spent my summer--Supreme Court edition,” Leah, Melissa, Jaime, and Ka...
Pineapple & Rage
Wed, 4 Sep
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In our final summer episode, it’s a reproductive rights and justice block party (or wake, dependin...
Leg Day
Mon, 22 Jul
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In the second summer episode, Leah, Melissa and Jaime keep things light with a discussion of the Cou...
Sipping My Tea
Mon, 1 Jul
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In the inaugural episode of Strict Scrutiny, Leah, Melissa, Jaime, and Kate recap two of this term's...
Is This Thing On?
Wed, 19 Jun
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Strict Scrutiny is hosted by three women, Leah Litman, Kate Shaw and Melissa Murray, who are three l...